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Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville Branch CLP.20170725.004

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Title
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville Branch, 1898 - 1989
Description
This collection contains documents from the opening of the Lawrenceville Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) 1898-1989. The documents include annual reports, monthly reports, children’s department monthly and annual reports, policy and statistics, damage reports, renovations, repairs, equipment purchases, newspaper clippings, library event postings, and maps. These documents were taken out of order due to chaotic arrangement of “miscellaneous” papers in box 4. ., Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville Branch, William R. Oliver Special Collections, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh ., The Lawrenceville Branch of the Carnegie Public Library opened on May 11th, 1898, as the first branch in the CLP library system. The 279 Fisk Street location was designed by architects Alden & Harlow, the same firm who designed the original Carnegie Institute in Oakland and other Carnegie branch libraries. This branch was known for its distinguished Children’s Department, known for half a decade as the “Boy’s and Girl’s Department,” providing one of the first separate children’s rooms of a library in the country. Built on the grounds of a former cemetery, what was in the early 19th century known as the Lawrenceville Burying Mound, a headstone remained in the library’s basement until 2002, when the tomb was discovered to be that of Henry Snowden who died as a baby in 1830. As an important community center that has served a diverse and changing population, the Lawrenceville branch, much like the other older Carnegie branches, struggled to meet the needs of the population while maintaining upkeep and dealing with a lack of funds, which is noted in this archive’s newspaper clippings and budget concerns. ., The materials were removed from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville Branch and transferred to the William R. Oliver Special Collections Room., Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Lawrenceville Branch sends new materials to the Oliver Room on an irregular schedule.
Contributor
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1898-1989
Type
Collection
Identifier
pitt:CLP.20170725.004, pitt: CLP.20170725.004
Language
eng
Rights
Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/, Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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